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Subject: Re: inkscape installed but does nothing --- solved to my satisfaction
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From: Mark Geisert via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Hi John,

J.F. Huesman via Cygwin wrote:
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> If I call inkscape -V from the prompt, I get an error:(inkscape:1451): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:07:30.361: cannot open display: :0

Inkscape is expecting a running X server to display on.  But even for "-V"?  That 
seems a little presumptuous :-).

> But if I run inscape on a file to convert the format:inkscape -f testfile.svg -e testfile.pngit executes without any error.
> 
> When I run my script, it starts with this message:** (inkscape:1422): WARNING **: 07:02:30.339: No cc:license metadata found, derived license URI from cc:License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/but the script runs and the png output is generated for all *.svg in the folder as expected, so I don't care about a warning message.

I haven't seen this; I'll look into it for later.  Glad inkscape now works for 
your use case.  I appreciate the feedback!
Cheers,

..mark


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