I consistently get Inkscape (Inkscape-0.45+0.46pre3-1.win32.exe) to crash upon selecting any of the following items off of the Help menu:
Inkscape Manual
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SVG 1.1 Specification

Hope this helps

- Diego -

PS By the way this is a fresh installation, IOW, I uninstalled the previous version/release, rebooted and installed.
See here
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There is a bug reported about this https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/200091 please comment there

I couldnt reproduce it on my winXP, pre3 version

Please note that in effect Inkscape crashes upon clicking on certain items in the Help menu. I tried this on two other machines - one is WXP SP2, 2 Gb RAM, 3.2 GHz Pentium D; nVidia Quadro FX 3500; the other is slightly older and not as good a PC (Pentium 4 @ 2.6 GHz, 512 Mb RAM) but still WXP SP2. I even tried un-installing and re-installing from the EXE, the Zip as well as the 7z.

- Diego -

dmatho wrote:Please note that in effect Inkscape crashes upon clicking on certain items in the Help menu.

Specifically, it crashes on those items that call a Python script to load a webpage in your default browser.

So, two questions:

1) What is your default browser?

2) Can you get any other Python scripts to work in Inkscape? (E.g., does Effects -> Render -> Spirograph work?)

(Like prkos, I can't reproduce these crashes - everything on the Help menu works fine for me in Inkscape 0.46pre3 under Windows XP.)

sas,
that's possibly it then...
1. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12
2. No that doesn't work either; the Spirograph crashes Inkscape.

If it matters or not I do not know but just in case, I do have Python 2.5 installed (for Blender)

So, what should I be looking at to fix this? And more surprisingly, why didn't 0.45.1 ever crash?

Cheers,

- Diego -

dmatho wrote:So, what should I be looking at to fix this?

I think you probably just need to put Python in your system path. (If it's already in the path, then I don't know what the problem is.)

To do this:
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Enviroment Variables
then select Path in the bottom panel, click Edit, and (in the ridiculously small edit box provided) add a semicolon to the end of whatever's there at the moment, followed by the full path of your Inkscape 0.46pre3 Python directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\Inkscape\python).

dmatho wrote: And more surprisingly, why didn't 0.45.1 ever crash?

0.45.1 was always able to find its python.exe, but this appears to be broken in 0.46pre3. (It's broken on my machine too, but in my case it finds some other python.exe.)

sas,
thanks! It worked. In effect Inkscape didn't have a path to the Python.exe under its "Inkscape\Python" sub-folder, the Environment Variables setting you mentioned before.
I also noticed I had installed Python 2.5 installed but the PYTHON_ROOT was still pointing to the "C:\Python24" which I had previously installed and later removed.

I do not know which one did it but all's set now. Thanks again!

Cheers,

- Diego -