inkscape without eps and pdf import by default?

Jan Henrik Sylvester me at janh.de
Mon Nov 30 11:55:23 UTC 2009


inkscape has 'POPPLER "Enable libpoppler-cairo for rendering PDF 
preview" off' by default.

Until 0.46, a default package of inkscape was able to import eps (with 
pstoedit present at least).

Since 0.47 eps import uses ps2pdf from ghostscript (see release notes) 
and then poppler. Even with ghostscript installed, the default package 
of inkscape cannot import eps anymore.

At least, the description of the option needs to be changed. Moreover, 
the default could be reconsidered, since I guess that most would expect 
the default package of inkscape to have eps/pdf import capabilities. An 
optional run time dependency on ghostscript might be appropriate, too.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik


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