My inkscape version .47 doesn't have spellchecker.

What's your operating system?
Did you install a packaged version or did you compile Inkscape yourself?

I installed a packaged version on Ubuntu 9.10.

Dave

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I'm not 100% sure, but I think Inkscape needs the aspell package in order to run the spell-checker.
Could you install it and test again?

The aspell and aspell-en packages are already installed.

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The aspell and aspell-en packages were already installed. I did not have to
install anything.

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dave
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> Your question #91015 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/91015
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> Status: Answered => Open
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> You are still having a problem:
> The aspell and aspell-en packages are already installed.
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> > Your question #91015 on Inkscape changed:
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> > JazzyNico proposed the following answer:
> > I'm not 100% sure, but I think Inkscape needs the aspell package in order
> > to run the spell-checker.
> > Could you install it and test again?
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You're right.
My SVN built version works well, but the menu entry is missing in the official 0.47pre4.

I guess this a problem with the ubuntu package only. New report opened:
Bug #486425 (Missing Spell-checker menu entry in Inkscape 0.47pre4).

Hi Dave,

This bug was fixed in the Inkscape 0.47.0-2ubuntu2 package, which will be included with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.