Bug 9717

Summary:	Inkscape cannot write to a PDF with out adding extra files (needs pdf2svg)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Roy Dammer <rdammer>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, fundawang, olav
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	inkscape	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Roy Dammer 2013-04-13 04:58:58 CEST

Description of problem: Using Inkscape as is from Mageia it does not write to a PDF. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):   Inkscape Version: 0.48.4-1.mga2


How reproducible: easy


Steps to Reproduce:as above
1.Install Inkscape
2.Try to write to an existing pdf, it does not
3.

The trick is, you need to install pdf2svg first. After that, you can open pdfs (inkscape converts them to svgs, and makes font substitutions according to what you have installed), and either select an object and "ungroup" it, or you can use the node selection tool (looks like a skinny triangle pointing at a circle inside a curve), to select individual objects for editing.

pdf2svg should be added to inkscape to the basic install. That way everybody who installs inkscape normally will benefit.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Manuel Hiebel 2013-04-13 19:28:55 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => doktor5000, fundawang, olav
Summary: Inkscape cannot write to a PDF with out adding extra files => Inkscape cannot write to a PDF with out adding extra files (needs pdf2svg)
Source RPM: Inkscape Version: 0.48.4-1.mga2 => inkscape-0.48.4-1.mga2

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:18:50 CEST

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Florian Hubold 2013-10-22 19:28:37 CEST

Hardware: i586 => All
Version: 2 => Cauldron
Source RPM: inkscape-0.48.4-1.mga2 => inkscape

Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-10 16:32:11 CEST

Is this bug still valid in Mageia 5 or Cauldron?

Shlomi, what is your opinion as Inkscape maintainer?

Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2015-09-10 20:30:11 CEST

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #2)
> Is this bug still valid in Mageia 5 or Cauldron?
> 
> Shlomi, what is your opinion as Inkscape maintainer?

Inkscape seems to be able to load and save from/to a PDF fine on Mageia Cauldron x86-64, without having a pdf2svg in the path. So I'm closing this bug as WORKSFORME.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME