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