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Hi,

on my Gentoo system, the inkscape ebuild requires the existence of
skencil in case of postscript support.

Unfortunately, I cannot build skencil anymore after switching to
Tcl/Tk-8.5.3

Does Inkscape (SVN) really need skencil for anything (like export to
postscript)?

Many thanks for a hint,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 06:59 +0000, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> on my Gentoo system, the inkscape ebuild requires the existence of
> skencil in case of postscript support.

Inkscape has never required the existence of Skencil, it will use it if
it is there.  It's a soft dependency instead of a hard one.

> Does Inkscape (SVN) really need skencil for anything (like export to
> postscript)?

SVN no longer uses Skencil, it uses the Poppler based PDF import to
import postscript by combining with ps2pdf from the Ghostscript package.

    --Ted