Why? It is so small, the last version of Inkscape written in C, before they rewrote it in C++.
Very handy for knocking up vector diagrams, or constructing composite bitmap images (it will import png images). Can also export to png.
Handy little app, but has some issues. One of those was the cursor in the horizontal ruler not erasing as it moved. Finally it is fixed, thanks to SFR:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 736#897736
But there is another bug. The vertical ruler is hidden. I noticed this recently, don't know when it appeared. Obviously some change in GTK2 has caused it.
This snapshot shows the bug: see attached.
SFR was working with 0.36.2, which seems to be older source. I have 0.36.3, and his patch did not work, so I had to create a new one.
If anyone with a smattering of C coding ability would like to have a go at fixing this, please do!
Here is the source:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... .3.tar.bz2
I have the patches and configure info from T2. File inkscapelite.conf is easy to read.
On a 64-bit build, this is the full configure line:
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# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --with-popt --with-xft --without-gnome-print --disable-mmx
His comment about not being able to open many SVG files, is correct. SVG files that it creates are OK, as are others using fairly generic SVG code. Perhaps that could be another project.
This is a great little app, it will be great if we can keep it alive.