Surprising response to a bug

[Abrolag]

I've been using Inkscape for along time now - over 2 years - and all my
schematic drawing are now in SVG form. I always work in landscape,
using a template file with a standard frame etc.

When I upgraded my distro to debian lenny, I noticed that it now
carried Inkscape version 0.46. I didn't think a lot about it, although
noticed there were oddities with the new way of setting out grids. This
was a minor nuisance, but was quickly rectified, and the overall
behaviour seemed improved.

It was only recently when I tried to print out one of these files I
realised there was a serious problem. Looking around the 'net I noticed
that a lot of other people had the same issue (can't print landscape).
However, when I went onto the bug tracker to see what was happening, I
was quite astonished to see this had been assigned a low priority.

I don't understand how a printing failure on a graphics package can be
thought of as unimportant. The only practical workaround I can find is
to save these as pdf then use evince to print them. I'm considering
going back to v 0.45 but that will mean re-doing all the grid settings
again.

I fully support the work being done on inkscape and have been singing
it's praises to anyone who'll listen, but I really hope this gets
sorted out sooner rather than later.

--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk

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[Josh Andler]

Can you please provide the Launchpad Bug ID# so I can take a look at it?

Thanks,
Josh

Abrolag wrote:

> I've been using Inkscape for along time now - over 2 years - and all my
> schematic drawing are now in SVG form. I always work in landscape,
> using a template file with a standard frame etc.
>
> When I upgraded my distro to debian lenny, I noticed that it now
> carried Inkscape version 0.46. I didn't think a lot about it, although
> noticed there were oddities with the new way of setting out grids. This
> was a minor nuisance, but was quickly rectified, and the overall
> behaviour seemed improved.
>
> It was only recently when I tried to print out one of these files I
> realised there was a serious problem. Looking around the 'net I noticed
> that a lot of other people had the same issue (can't print landscape).
> However, when I went onto the bug tracker to see what was happening, I
> was quite astonished to see this had been assigned a low priority.
>
> I don't understand how a printing failure on a graphics package can be
> thought of as unimportant. The only practical workaround I can find is
> to save these as pdf then use evince to print them. I'm considering
> going back to v 0.45 but that will mean re-doing all the grid settings
> again.
>
> I fully support the work being done on inkscape and have been singing
> it's praises to anyone who'll listen, but I really hope this gets
> sorted out sooner rather than later.
>
>  

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[Abrolag]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:07:39 -0700
Josh Andler <scislac@...> wrote:

> Can you please provide the Launchpad Bug ID# so I can take a look at it?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh

#166678

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http://www.musically.me.uk

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