textext: texttext hangs before any ouput is produced

Description of the problem/ steps to reproduce

When I press Save or Preview with any input, textext hangs and never produces any output, even messages. inkscape itself is also blocked. From here I can only kill textext to return to inkscape.

textext worked perfectly fine for me until recently when this issue appeared, so it must have been caused by a recent update in inkscape. If it’s of any help I can try to downgrade both inkscape and textext to see if the issue disappears.

From the log file it’s clear that it hangs on the call ixc.inkscape from TexToPdfConverter.pdf_to_svg.

Message(s) in error dialog (if this comes up) textext (and inkscape together with it) hangs before messages are shown.

Logfile textext.log

System information

TexText version: 1.9.0
Inkscape version: 1.3 (1:1.3+202307231459+0e150ed6c4)
Operating system: Tuxedo OS 2 (based on Kubuntu 22.04), x86_64 GNU/Linux, kernel 6.2.0-10027

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 9 months ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 27 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Ah, and one final test please with the 1.3.x nightly: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/1.3.x/download?job=appimage%3Alinux

(Please also post the version string)

Also works with this version (Inkscape 1.3 (4f532fb, 2023-09-22))

VasilySotnikov on Oct 20, 2023

@VasilySotnikov Could you do the Inkscape developers a favour and try to import a pdf file using the latest AppImage of Inkscape? And also do the command line conversion test?

You can download it here: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-dev/gnulinux/appimage/dl/

Does it work with the nightly build (Note: TexText will not work using an AppImage if not configured properly).

Please give feedback here so we can decide of we open a separate issue on their issue tracker,

I downloaded the image Inkscape 1.4-dev (afe3546, 2023-10-20), and pdf import does work. Both as a command for step 5 and through the GUI. Thanks a lot communicating the issue to inkscape developers!

VasilySotnikov on Oct 20, 2023

@VasilySotnikov, @tommy-engels Could you try the following fix, please? Just install it as you did with your original installation of TexText. Does it work now?

TexText-Linux-1.9.1-dev.zip

This doesn’t fix the problem unfortunately.

Thanks a lot for your help with this!

VasilySotnikov on Oct 17, 2023