can't open PDF or AI files in 0.48 SOLVED

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen]

I have been using 0.47 where I can open ai files, but I am trying off 0.48 and I can't open ai files. Uniconveter failed, not sure if it is simply because of 0.48 being alfa, thanks

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

could you attach an .ai file here?

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

It is any illustrator file

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

It is any illustrator file (ai)

Below is what inkscape 'says'

Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected.

UniConvertor failed:

Cannot list directory /home/klaus/.uniconvertor:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/klaus/.uniconvertor'
ignoring it in font_path
Cannot list directory /home/klaus/.uniconvertor:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/klaus/.uniconvertor'
ignoring it in font_path
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/utils/locale_utils.py:9: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
  from popen2 import popen2
No plugin-type information in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/plugins/Filters/__init__.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/__init__.py", line 82, in uniconv
    doc = load.load_drawing(input_file)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/io/load.py", line 364, in load_drawing
    return load_drawing_from_file(file, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/io/load.py", line 346, in load_drawing_from_file
    raise SketchLoadError(_("unrecognised file type"))
app.events.skexceptions.SketchLoadError: unrecognised file type

[su_v (suv-lp)]

not reproduced with Inkscape 0.47 and 0.47+devel r9495 on OS X 10.5.8

The error can be reproduced when manually choosing the filetype 'Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and below (*.ai) - which is to be expected because the file is not in AI 0.8 format (and UniConvertor fails).

Your attached file is in PDF format and is opened without error as PDF file when letting Inkscape choose the filetype itself or when manually choosing "Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and above (*.ai)".

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

Thanks for the comments, I can get it to work with 0.47 but not 0.48 (neither import or normal 'open'

[su_v (suv-lp)]

What platform are you working on? Do you build the 0.47+devel (or 0.48pre0) version yourself?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

And related: can you open or import other PDF files in 047+devel / 0.48pre0?

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

Ubuntu 10.04. I installed 0.47 using Synatic PM, and 0.48 using Terminal using ./configure, then make then make install (and a lot of Synatic to allow the installation). I am pretty new to Ubuntu, but I don't think I am doing anything obvious wrong :-)

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

I can't not open or import .pdf files in 0.48 (I don't have 0.47 installed anymore), Hope that may help with what the problem is

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Which poppler version do you have installed? Can you attach the configure log?

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

I have libpoppler-glib4, libpoppler5 and poppler-utils installed, there are a lot more, maybe I need to install some of them? Which log file is it you want to see and I will try to find it, thanks

[su_v (suv-lp)]

I'm not using Ubuntu myself, but AFAIK you also need the dev packages of poppler (headers and development libraries needed to
 build applications using Poppler) for PDF support in Inkscape, as described here:
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu#Additional_dependencies>

See also <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape#Poppler> about including the Xpdf headers required by Inkscape in case compilation fails after installing the additional dependencies.

@JazzyNico - do you know if the wiki page is up-to-date and includes all needed dependencies for Ubuntu to compile from the prerelease tar ball?

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

Thanks for the help suv, I tried to do as you suggest, but it didn't help, I then did the ./configure, make and checkinstall, once again for inkscape 0.48 and now it works. (I didnt think I should do that every time I use synactic to install e.g poppler, or am I wrong), anyway it works :-)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thank you for reporting back. I will close this report as 'Invalid' as your problem was not a bug in Inkscape or its build scripts: dependencies have to be installed before running 'configure', to have them included in the build process and enable e.g. PDF support in Inkscape.

[Klaus Hvid Nielsen (klausindc)]

Okay thanks for the help, I have learned a lot for next time I run into 'problems'. Didn't know that I had to run the /.configure again.