Hello everyone,

it's been a few days since I've started using inkscape, and I must say I'm very pleased with it, good job guys! However, I downloaded the latest prerelease to experiment with the new features (some of which I badly need), but the effects are not working: I selecta shape (path), apply an effect on it, but ll that happens is that a console window pops up and and closes down, but nothing happens to the shape, no error messages are displayed.

I opened a bug about this issue, but was wondering whether anyonone else has already experienced this problem and/or could give me hints.

I've never been able to get the Perspective effect working in version .45 which is a shame because it would save me a ton of time. I haven't really tried the others.

hi,
The downloaded Inkscape 0.46 does not seem to include an installer so I wrote a little .bat file to change the PATH before starting the program. The Effects then work because the python files are found.
runink.bat
set PATH="C:\directory\where\files\were\unzipped\inkscape\python";%PATH%;
set PYTHONPATH="C:\directory\where\files\were\unzipped\inkscape\python"
C:\directory\where\files\were\unzipped\inkscape\inkscape.exe

Hope this helps.

where do you put the file?

hi,
I put all of the bat files that I create in a separate directory but I don't think that it matters which directory but I have included that directory in my normal PATH. For example I would always look for my bats in C:\belfry To run the bat file double click on it or create a short cut and put the short cut on the desktop.

It didn't work for me, all I get is a flash of cmd window and nothing else. I then manually set the paths in windows and ran Inkscape, but extensions still don't work.

Are you sure its only about environment variables? When I try to do a perspective effect I do get the python window, that means that variables are set properly doesn't it? It must be something else, cos somebody would have fixed it by now if it was that easy right?