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# Inkscape-1.4

## Introduction to Inkscape

Inkscape is a what you see is what you get Scalable Vector Graphics editor. It is useful for creating, viewing and changing SVG images.

### Note

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### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://inkscape.org/gallery/item/53679/inkscape-1.4.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: a93f3a8eab82ef3d610f426bfe58e3df

- Download size: 44 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 784 MB (197 MB installed)

- Estimated build time: 2.6 SBU (with parallelism=8)

### Additional Downloads

- Required patch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/inkscape-1.4-poppler_fixes-1.patch

### Note

The tarball `inkscape-1.4.tar.xz` will extract to the directory `inkscape-1.4_2024-10-09_e7c3feb100/`.

### Inkscape Dependencies

#### Required

Boost-1.87.0, double-conversion-3.3.0, GC-8.2.8, gsl-2.8, Gtkmm-3.24.9, libsoup-2.74.3, libxslt-1.1.42, Poppler-24.12.0, and popt-1.19

#### Recommended

ImageMagick-7.1.1-36 (runtime), Little CMS-2.16, libcanberra-0.30 (to eliminate plugin warnings), Potrace-1.16 (for the bucket-fill tool), also various Python modules at runtime for the core extensions: CacheControl-0.14.1, cssselect-1.2.0, lxml-5.3.0, NumPy-2.2.0, pySerial-3.5, and Scour-0.38.2

#### Optional

Aspell-0.60.8.1, dbus-1.14.10 (to run inkscape from scripts), Doxygen-1.12.0, gspell-1.14.0, GraphicsMagick, libcdr, libvisio, libwpg (or libwpd)

## Installation of Inkscape

First, fix build failures with recent versions of poppler:

    patch -Np1 -i ../inkscape-1.4-poppler_fixes-1.patch

Install Inkscape by running the following commands:

    mkdir build                       &&
    cd    build                       &&

    cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr  \
          -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release   \
          ..                          &&
    make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

### Note

This package installs icon files into the `/usr/share/icons/hicolor` hierarchy and desktop files into the `/usr/share/applications` hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme` and `/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache`. To perform the update you must have GTK+-3.24.43 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.28 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the `root` user:

    gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
    update-desktop-database -q

## Command Explanations

`-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release`: This switch is used to build the release library without any debug `assert` in the code.

`-D WITH_DBUS=ON`: use this if you wish to use inkscape in interactive scripts which manipulate images.

## Contents

Installed Programs: inkscape and inkview
Installed Library: libinkscape_base.so (in /usr/lib/inkscape)
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/inkscape, and /usr/share/inkscape

### Short Descriptions

inkscape | is a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editing program
inkview | is a simple program for displaying SVG files
`libinkscape_base.so` | provides the routines used by inkscape and inkview

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