Vertical ruler issue on Ubuntu 9.04 amd64

[bmar]

Hi,

The vertical ruler has disappeared in this version. I have installed Inkscape from the repository and also tried the "develop" version. In both versions I can only see some pixels of the graduations and one or two pixels are following the cursor.
I tried to hide/display the rulers but nothing changes.
I attached a screenshot of what I can see.
I can tell about the x86 version in Jaunty as I switched to amd64 on this release.

[nightrow (jb-benoit)]

I have the same erroneous display on ubuntu 9.04 i386 using 0.46 version.

[dopelover (dopelover)]

Current Inkscape from SVN (r21277) seems to be free from this defect. All guides are displayed correctly.

Ubuntu 9.04 i386 with propietary Nvidia display driver.

[dopelover (dopelover)]

Current Inkscape from SVN (r21277) tunning on my Ubuntu 9.04 i386 with propietary Nvidia display driver seems to be free from this defect. All guides are displayed correctly.

[Nick Colgan (nick-colgan)]

I have the same problem. Please upload fixed version to repos as soon as possible. It's important for me to have a vertical ruler to create vertical guides.

[Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail)]

Nick: That's now how it works. Inkscape developers don't upload compiled packages to the repos. The packagers of each distribution compile the packages and sent them to repositories.
Most of distributions only upload stable releases of software to their repositories, so Inkscape won't be in repositories until the official release of 0.47
Meanwhile you can use a development build (Tobias Wolff has a PPA with recent builds).

[Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail)]

Seems to be fixed in SVN. Please re-open if the problem persists in recent development builds

[m3ta-x (ubuntu-addict)]

Got the same problem.

[Stephen Winsor (stephenwinsor)]

I have the same problem with the vertical ruler mostly gone in version 0.46 on Ubuntu 9.04 i386.

[Bruce Hill (munin)]

Have same problem. However, can, with some difficulty, grab the end of a subdivision mark, and drag out vertical guides.

[Muhfi Asbin Sagala (moehfi)]

i have the same problem too in Ubuntu 9.04 i386

[See-ming Lee (seeminglee)]

I have the same problem in Ubuntu 9.04 i386, and no matter how hard I try I can't manage to grab a vertical guide like @BruceHill does. My work around is:

1. Draw vertical lines where I want the vertical guides to appear
2. Select Object > Object to Guides (or Shift-G) to convert lines into guides

This is in fact much more efficient than dragging guides from the the ruler. TIP: If you convert a rectangle into guides, Inkscape will create 4 guides along each side of the shape.

The only thing that's annoying is that there appears no easy way to clear all the guides. Right now I've been dealing with it by opening up the file in an edit and removed all the <sodipodi:guide /> nodes so I won't have to do it manually. Currently reading up on documentation to do it natively so hopefully soon I can just select that as an effect. :)

[Eduardo_Ediney (ediney-gomes)]

I have the same problem too im linux mint 7

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Since it was asked on irc which revision fixed the vertical ruler: according to this thread in inkscape-devel
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/29507> it was:

Revision: 20962
Author: buliabyak
Date: Sun Mar 22 20:15:37 2009 UTC (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
Log Message: fix squashed vruler: add requisition methon

[Arnaud Dessein (arnaud.dessein)]

Is this problem supposed to be solved ?
On my Ubuntu 9.04 i386 the problem is still there....

[Bruce Hill (munin)]

I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, and have installed Inkscape 0.47 on two computers: one has a 22" LCD monitor at 1680x1050 px (native resolution) and the other on an 18" CRT monitor at 1024x768 px.

The problem with the vertical ruler seems to have been mostly fixed, but there is still some loss of the graduation ticks.

The "Default Units" set for the document (FILE>DOCUMENT PROPERTIES) seems to affect how much of the scale is visible. For "pixels" to "inches" all is well. If the units are set at "feet" only the tips of the ticks are visible. If the units are set at "meters" then there is considerable loss.

The above description pertains to the LCD monitor. However, the effect is less noticable for the CRT monitor.

I can think of a possible explanation for the difference between the LCD monitor and the CRT monitor.

But I don't understand why a change of scale/default units should cjhnge how much of the ticks is visible.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Appears to be fixed in 0.47, ubuntu lucid alpha 2