Inkscape Portable 0.48 has been released. Inkscape Portable is an open source scalable vector graphics editor packaged as a portable app, so you can do your graphics work on the go. It has all the same great features of Inkscape including markers, clones, alpha blending and has a streamlined interface. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version.
Features
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
Working With Inkscape Developers
As with many of our new releases, we've worked directly with the Inkscape developers on this portable package and it is hosted by the Inkscape project itself and distributed as the portable version of their software. We'd like to thank the Inkscape developers for their cooperation and for working with us to make Inkscape more portable.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Inkscape Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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Inkscape Portable is available for immediate download from the Inkscape Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Thank You Chris ...
... for this release
Failed to Update Via PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5
Send error request (Win7) - Any ideas?
probably not in the updater
probably not in the updater file correctly
I'll install a old version and do the update myself on winxp to confirm.
Update:
Works fine, and it looks like the old inkscape bug is gone as well. Good work
Worked For Me
I just updated from 0.47 to 0.48 on Windows 7 using Platform 2.0 Beta 5 and it worked fine. If you're getting a send error, that means your computer couldn't connect to the server at that moment.
Updater
Thanks for the feedback. I can manually update to 0.48 but the Updater hangs after the download reaches 100%. The error message indicates that it can not open the file. (I have connectivity and file is available on the server seen using ftp.) I guess I need to check another app to locate the issue. Thanks for your comments.
Update ... Updater worked fine with another app. Not sure why it stopped with Inkscape.
inkscape 0.48 disappears without doing anything
just installed inkscape 0.48 portable on a lokal Windows2000 Pro machine.
double clicked file InkscapePortable.exe
then for a few seconds there was a splash-screen, but after it disappeared nothing further happened
there are no error messages
any ideas which could help me to run inkscape?
No Windows 2000
It would appear that 0.48 has dropped Windows 2000 support. Installing the local version on Windows 2000 and trying to run it yields: "The procedure entry point in freeaddrinfo could not be located in the dynamic link library WS2_32.DLL". Please ask in the Inkscape forums if Windows 2000 is still supported. If not, we will remove it from the supported OS list for this app.
Note: Apps are beginning to drop Windows 2000 support now that it has been end-of-lifed by Microsoft and will receive no further security or bug fixes.
Seems so
It seems that support for Windows 2000 has been broken in 0.48. There's a bug in Inkscape's bug tracker about it too - https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/624091
I would like to see support for Windows 2000 come back to Inkscape, but it may well not. For the moment anyway, keep 0.47 handy if you need to use Inkscape on Windows 2000.
FYI
Compare this Dia bug.
Thank you!
Thank you all,
to know the bug is at least to know how to avoid it!
Download link to Inkscape Portable 0.47
I couldn't find download references to 0.47 when searching Portableapps, all links point to 0.48.
Managed to get it by editing the download URL for 0.47.
Here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47/InkscapePor...
I hope this link gets inserted in the main Inkscape Portable page, with a pointer for Windows 2000 users.
Dropping W2K support would be a shame
...since quite a lot of people still use it, for a lot of reasons (obnoxiousness in XP and other versions and availability of sensible XP versions being just two).
Not much to do other than tell the developers/software makers though.
In the meantime, the current Inkscape 0.48 portable apps page needs a warning about the bug and a direct link to the previous version for Windows 2000 users, pending a bug fix.
No Fix
As with most software, there will probably be no 'fix' to re-enable Windows 2000 support. Windows 2000 support has been dropped. GIMP did the same thing a while back and has no intention of adding Win2K support back in either. Most software is no longer listing Win2K under supported OSes and is no longer including Windows 2000 in their test suite setup. Mozilla has dropped Win2K as a supported OS and no longer tests for compatibility with Firefox 4 (this became evident as 4 beta 2 would not run on Win2K), though it is accepting patches from outside users to workaround such bugs (as it did in this case).
Windows 2000 support is no longer a requirement for listing in the Portable Apps Directory. The operating system has been end-of-lifed and is now considered unsafe for production use by most users. No security issues are fixed within it any longer. So, lots of software developers aren't taking the time to bother testing or doing workarounds for the APIs they use that aren't present in Win2K. We will continue to maintain compatibility with our set of tools and platform (Menu, Backup, Installer, Launcher, AppCompactor) to ensure Windows 2000 users have access to our platform and ensure that Windows 2000-compatible software will continue to work portably on that platform.
We will continue to list whether software is Win2K compatible in our Download Details section. But we will not lobby publishers to support Win2K nor add any sort of additional warning if software is not Win2K compatible other than not listing it under compatible OSes. It isn't considered a bug because it is not a bug. As time goes on, more and more apps will continue to drop Win2K support.
Possibly will be fixed
It has been reported in the Inkscape bug tracker, and it turned out it was a problem in GLib (specifically gio), which may be fixed for the next release. There are definitely normal Inkscape users who have wished to use Inkscape on 2000. However, because the issue is upstream, it's going to depend a bit on whether they take notice of the requests there...
Pity...
...since I don't find the alternatives too attractive, and I'm not alone in thinking so.
Only remains to hope for Linux *finally* coming of age for real (support for wireless is still in Alpha stage, obviously), so I can *finally* switch.
FWIW, I'm running the Firefox 4 beta on W2K. The only big glitch so far is that having a PDF open in a Firefox tab disables the navigations keys (the arrow keys and Home, End, PageDown/PageUp).
Thanks for keeping at least some stuff workable on W2K.
Did you try it?
I don't want to hijack this thread but I am using Linux (Ubuntu) since a couple of years now and only had a few problems (for example printing).
Oh yes, fairly extensively...
It takes only one "must have" to make the whole thing fail, and there's more than one.
If I leave the lack of my professional tools aside, getting wireless access to work using WPA2/PSK/AES with a fixed IP is a daunting task, be it on Ubuntu or openSUSE, to mention just two. Knetworkmanager/Networkmanager was quite simply broken, last I checked (haven't yet tried openSUSE 11.3 properly, for lack of time, but on installing it didn't even find the built-in wireless NIC on that laptop...).
Not PortableApps Issue
Win2K support isn't provided by PortableApps, it's provided by the base applications. If those base applications no longer support Win2K then there is no way for the Portable version to do so either. Unfortunately, Windows 2000 is basically dead, no longer being supported by Microsoft. Even XP will be old-hat soon.
I believe Linux wireless support is pretty good these days (with Kernel 2.6.x), and Ubuntu (or one of its derivatives) is a pretty smooth user experience for those familiar with Windows. I would say that the only thing that really prevents me from moving over to Linux are the games (partly me, and partly my family).
render command problem
Anyone have a problem where the render commands under extensions don't do anything in 0.48? All I get is a dialog window flashing by so fast I can't read it (I think it's the one that says something like 'some render function) is working').
They work for me in 0.47, not sure if this is a portable version problem or an Inkscape problem, I didn't see any mention on the InkScape forums. I'm using WinXP SP2.
Inkscape
Try it in the normal version of Inkscape. Then if it doesn't work in that, then report it to the Inkscape bug tracker. If it is a bug, I think it's likely to be with the Windows build, not just the portable version which compresses the normal Windows build with the PortableApps.com AppCompactor. I can't reproduce it on Linux.