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Bug #179988
Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 179988

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Duositex (duositex) wrote on 2008-02-22: Re: [Bug 179988] Re: no printing from Windows

#23

I thank everyone for their quick efforts to solve this problem and to
Bryce for doing a good job fielding my questions and giving good
responses. Sincerely appreciated.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Aaron Spike <email address hidden> wrote:
> FYI, I recently had some difficulties with pycairo on win32. I built
> pycairo against our libs bundle (cairo 1.4 at the time iirc) as an easy
> out (all of the deps were collected there in one place for me). Things
> worked fine until I tried to use text. Every attempt to use text caused
> a crash. Recently I found an updated binary of cairo and pycairo 1.4 on
> the gtk site and with these versions I do not experience a crash. I
> would postulate from my experience that this crash if it is caused by
> text is not related to the version of cairo, but rather the build. I
> wonder if perhaps this is caused by some bad linking against or between
> the font librarys that cairo uses. (Those font libs always confuse me.
> seems like there are a number of cross deps that would be difficult to
> get right.)
>
>
>
> --
> no printing from Windows
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179988
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Running Windows XP, and Inkscape0712311750.7z
> When I use File|Print, I get no printout, and no crash.
> In DOS I get a one line message :
> C:\Python25\APP>python inkcl.py
> cairo_win32_surface_create: The handle is invalid.
>
> P.S. this is a major improvement over Dec18 Windows build, which would crash on printout, and would not allow me to save anything as 'Plain SVG' or 'Compressed Plain SVG', both of these now work well, congratulations!
>
> P.P.S. I believe the file \inkscape\share\extensions\svgz_output.inx is redundant.
> It leads to a duplicate entry under File|Save As ...|Compressed Inkscape SVG (*.svgz)
>
> [Changing title to not be build-specific, since the problem persists in later builds... -Tom Davidson]
>

I thank everyone for their quick efforts to solve this problem and to
Bryce for doing a good job fielding my questions and giving good
responses. Sincerely appreciated.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Aaron Spike <aaron@ekips.org> wrote:
> FYI, I recently had some difficulties with pycairo on win32. I built
>  pycairo against our libs bundle (cairo 1.4 at the time iirc) as an easy
>  out (all of the deps were collected there in one place for me). Things
>  worked fine until I tried to use text. Every attempt to use text caused
>  a crash. Recently I found an updated binary of cairo and pycairo 1.4 on
>  the gtk site and with these versions I do not experience a crash. I
>  would postulate from my experience that this crash if it is caused by
>  text is not related to the version of cairo, but rather the build. I
>  wonder if perhaps this is caused by some bad linking against or between
>  the font librarys that cairo uses. (Those font libs always confuse me.
>  seems like there are a number of cross deps that would be difficult to
>  get right.)
>
>
>
>  --
>  no printing from Windows
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179988
>  You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>  of the bug.
>
>  Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: Confirmed
>
>  Bug description:
>  Running Windows XP, and Inkscape0712311750.7z
>  When I use File|Print, I get no printout, and no crash.
>  In DOS I get a one line message :
>  C:\Python25\APP>python inkcl.py
>  cairo_win32_surface_create: The handle is invalid.
>
>  P.S. this is a major improvement over Dec18 Windows build, which would crash on printout, and would not allow me to save anything as 'Plain SVG' or 'Compressed Plain SVG', both of these now work well, congratulations!
>
>  P.P.S. I believe the file \inkscape\share\extensions\svgz_output.inx is redundant.
>  It leads to a duplicate entry under File|Save As ...|Compressed Inkscape SVG (*.svgz)
>
>  [Changing title to not be build-specific, since the problem persists in later builds... -Tom Davidson]
>