Inkscape

Strange pages before the Guide opens..

Asked by HDLewis

When I click on the "Inkscape Manual" section of the Help drop down menu in Inkscape, although I always get through to the manual, the program first displays a black page with no code in it, then a page with the message "Inkscape received additional data from the script executed etc etc" and in the window beneath is a string of text whose first line is: "Exception in thread: Thread-1.."

Why is all this unnecessary garbage displayed at all? Shouldn't the manual simply appear as the next page after I click on "Inkscape Manual" on the Help menu?

Additionally, why will Inkscape not allow any of the fonts (bar one) to be used?

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sas (sas-sas) said : 		#1

The black window is expected (bug 215020), assuming you're using MS Windows. The "additional data" isn't expected - it appears to come from the Python 'threading' module. You could file a bug report on this if you like.

It would be better for Inkscape to start the browser directly, rather than via Python, but this needs to work reliably on all supported operating systems (Windows, Linux, OS X, ...) and with all reasonably common browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, ...). At present Python is used simply because Python has a standard module to handle this.

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Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) said : 		#2

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