Bug 441017

Summary:	LaTeX rendering nonfunctional in Inkscape 0.46.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	August Schwerdfeger <august>
Component:	inkscape	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	alex, jspaleta, lkundrak
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Fixed In Version:	0.46-2.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description August Schwerdfeger 2008-04-05 04:48:31 UTC

The mechanism for rendering LaTeX objects (Effects->Render->LaTeX Formula)
appears to be broken in Inkscape 0.46.

In version 0.45 the renderer worked as expected. However, I started the new
version after the upgrade and without doing anything else attempted to render a
LaTeX formula, which proved impossible: while the renderer ran normally, the
rendered formula did not show up.

Several formulae were tried, with identical (non-)results. Erroneous formulae
were tried, with the renderer reporting the error as expected. I then removed
version 0.46 and reverted to version 0.45, which is once again working as expected.

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-04-05 21:34:12 UTC

Fixed in inkscape-0.46-2.fc8. Do you think this should be fixed in an update? I
tend to think yes, as it is more-or-less a regression (LaTeX support was also
partly broken in 0.45 though, see bug #252159), so I'll push that to testing
once it builds.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-04-05 22:11:08 UTC

inkscape-0.46-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:12:44 UTC

inkscape-0.46-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update inkscape'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2890

Comment 4 Jef Spaleta 2008-04-17 23:56:28 UTC

inkscape-0.46-2.fc8  has broken pdf rendering.

artifacts in the output when transparency or gradient effects are used.

downgrading to inkscape-0.46-1.fc8 and i get usable pdf rendering again.

-jef

Comment 5 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-04-18 07:33:58 UTC

Jef: That is very strange, since the only change between the releases was this
patch [1]. I am wondering if there was some change in its build-time
dependencies or something. Could you please provide a test case, such as svg
file whose rendering to pdf differs between the versions of inkscape in question?

[1]
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/inkscape/F-8/inkscape-0.46-fixlatex.patch?view=markup

Thanks!

Comment 6 Jef Spaleta 2008-04-18 18:04:26 UTC

It was a bit odd...I certainly didn't expect it.

Even better I can't reproduce it today...even with the svg that was repeatably
problematic earlier.  Oh well.  Sorry to bother you.

-jef

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-04-22 22:42:38 UTC

inkscape-0.46-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.