Demeter on Windows with Inkscape (and possibly other programs)
Windows users: I got an interesting bug report today from a fellow who develops a popular open source program for vector graphics editing (Inkscape). Apparently, there is a problem in Demeter's installer that has an impact on the ability of that program (and possibly others) in accessing system font files. The issue with Inkscape is described here: https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/issues/51 I mention this here on the mailing list in an effort to help the folks who maintain Inkscape. If you use Demeter and Inkscape on your Windows machine, there is a problem and it is my fault :( The simplest solution is to uninstall Demeter, then continue using Inkscape. If that's not true or if someone needs a better solution right now, post here and I will help you work out a solution. I think the real fix to the problem is simple and I will work on a new installer this month. Cheers, B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS-II Building 743, Room 114 Upton NY, 11973 Homepage: http://bruceravel.github.io/home/ Software: https://github.com/bruceravel Demeter: http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/
Hi Bruce, I am not experiencing this issue. I have Athena and Inkscape both open right now. My environment variables list does not have FONTCONFIG_FILE in it. I have a vague recollection of deleting that env var some time ago when changing versions of Demeter. Regardless, Demeter is working for me without issue...Inkscape as well...so perhaps a simple short-term fix is just to delete FONTCONFIG_FILE from the env var list rather than uninstalling Demeter. Demeter 0.9.26 (pre 2) Inkscape 0.92 (fresh install today) win10x64, AMDx64 cheers, Robert On 8/10/2017 1:42 PM, Bruce Ravel wrote:
Windows users:
I got an interesting bug report today from a fellow who develops a popular open source program for vector graphics editing (Inkscape).
Apparently, there is a problem in Demeter's installer that has an impact on the ability of that program (and possibly others) in accessing system font files. The issue with Inkscape is described here: https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/issues/51
I mention this here on the mailing list in an effort to help the folks who maintain Inkscape.
If you use Demeter and Inkscape on your Windows machine, there is a problem and it is my fault :(
The simplest solution is to uninstall Demeter, then continue using Inkscape.
If that's not true or if someone needs a better solution right now, post here and I will help you work out a solution.
I think the real fix to the problem is simple and I will work on a new installer this month.
Cheers, B
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Robert Gordon