On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:27:32AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree. > Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which is as good as any of > the top font layout engines available (uniscribe, qt, OsX). It had problems > in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but > that too seems to be ok in later versions. But perhaps your problem was > input? Could you describe what annoyed you in more detail? > > Regadrs, > Dov > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:46, Avraham Rosenberg <for.avra...@gmail.com>wrote: > ... Hi Dov, Thank you for jumping in to help. I do not remember where I read, in the past, that the way to input non-ASCII characters in inkscape is to type in their utf8 codes, maybe even prefixed by something. That is why I did not consider it as a possible solution. After reading your mail, I tried to import into inkscape my fig file -after deleting the English text- and to type in Hebrew. It worked very nicely. Sadly, it is about the only thing I am able to do with my inkscape - Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Mar 12 2010)- because it seems to be buggy: not only I get an interminbable set of warnings: (inkscape:5786): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed but I was also unable to rotate a rectangle: no matter what the little arrows implied, the effect of the attempt was resizing insteadof rotation.
I understand that you do use inkscape successfully. Please let me know if it was installed through apt-get (and in this case what version it is) or built it from sources. I annex the output of the command ldd `which inkscape`, in order to compare the libraries, in case it turns out that we use the same version of the program. Maybe the problem lies with one of the libraries. linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb76fc000) libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb738a000) libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so.1 (0xb7345000) libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb72fb000) libgiomm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7259000) libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so.1 (0xb722b000) libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb71d3000) libcairomm-1.0.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcairomm-1.0.so.1 (0xb71b3000) libxslt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 (0xb717b000) libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7051000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb704b000) libgtkspell.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so.0 (0xb7045000) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6c6f000) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6bd8000) libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb6bbc000) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6b96000) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb6b7d000) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb6b72000) libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb6ad5000) libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6a60000) libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb6a1c000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb69a5000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6976000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb6937000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb6933000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb692e000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6925000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb685c000) libpng12.so.0 => /lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6837000) libgsl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgsl.so.0 (0xb6644000) libgslcblas.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0 (0xb6612000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb65fe000) libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 (0xb65f1000) libpopt.so.0 => /lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb65e6000) libaspell.so.15 => /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0xb6547000) libgnomevfs-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0 (0xb64eb000) libgconf-2.so.4 => /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4 (0xb64b8000) libwpg-0.1.so.1 => /usr/lib/libwpg-0.1.so.1 (0xb648f000) libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1 => /usr/lib/libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1 (0xb647f000) libwpd-0.8.so.8 => /usr/lib/libwpd-0.8.so.8 (0xb63f2000) libMagick++.so.3 => /usr/lib/libMagick++.so.3 (0xb637b000) libMagickCore.so.3 => /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3 (0xb6135000) libgc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 (0xb6102000) liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0xb60ce000) libpoppler.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 (0xb5f0a000) libpoppler-glib.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4 (0xb5edc000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb5de7000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb5dc1000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb5da3000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb5d89000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb5c43000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb5b26000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb5b22000) libenchant.so.1 => /usr/lib/libenchant.so.1 (0xb5b18000) libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb5b14000) libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb5b11000) libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb5b0c000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb5afd000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb5af4000) libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb5af0000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb5ae3000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb5adc000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb5ad3000) libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb5aa0000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb5a8b000) libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb5a70000) libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xb5a17000) libxcb-render-util.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0 (0xb5a13000) libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-render.so.0 (0xb5a0c000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb59f2000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb59cc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb76fd000) libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 (0xb59ad000) libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xb5973000) libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (0xb58da000) libavahi-glib.so.1 => /usr/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1 (0xb58d7000) libavahi-common.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 (0xb58cb000) libavahi-client.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so.3 (0xb58bb000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb58b7000) libORBit-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 (0xb5862000) libMagickWand.so.3 => /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so.3 (0xb5750000) libtiff.so.4 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 (0xb56f5000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb56d5000) liblqr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/liblqr-1.so.0 (0xb56c4000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb5671000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb5660000) libltdl.so.7 => /usr/lib/libltdl.so.7 (0xb5658000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb5650000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb5639000) libopenjpeg.so.2 => /usr/lib/libopenjpeg.so.2 (0xb561b000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb5618000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb5613000) libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb5603000) libgcrypt.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb558e000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb558a000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb5586000) Cheers, Avraham -- Please avoid sending Excel or Powerpoint attachments to this address. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il