Poppler, poppler-glib breaking Inkscape

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Just a head up. The latest updates of poppler and poppler-glib seem to break Inkscape. A downgrade solves the problem. Inkscape is starting again.

yay -Qs poppler
local/poppler 24.09.0-3
    PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0
local/poppler-glib 24.09.0-3
    Poppler glib bindings

Updated versions would be : 24.09.0-4

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I suspect this is fixed already (if you update again). There’s an update to poppler and I can confirm Inkscape is starting.

poppler 24.09.0-4
poppler-glib 24.09.0-4
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Inkscape isn’t starting with this version on my installation. I needed to go back one version.

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Oh I see, so version 24.09.0-4 is causing you the issue, not 24.09.0-3?

Might it be related to any PDF related intervention on poppler-qt6?

My output of:
yay -Q | grep poppler

poppler 24.09.0-4
poppler-data 0.4.12-2
poppler-glib 24.09.0-4
poppler-qt6 24.09.0-4
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poppler-qt6 doesn’t interfere at all. I only downgraded mentioned 2 packages. The qt6 package is still version 24.09.0-4 on my system. I just recognized it even exists, after downgrading poppler and poppler-glib.

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Are you using inkscape or are you using inkscape-git?

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Strange then, that the latest versions work here. Inkscape is version 1.4.1?

inkscape 1.4-1
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I only had a look at the requirements of Inkscape. Only the 2 packages are required. poppler-qt6 isn’t.

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extra/inkscape 1.4-1 (24.1 MiB 173.4 MiB) (Installiert)
Professional vector graphics editor

As far as I can tell, this version is still beta, although it is in the extra repository. I assume they offer this one because 1.3.2 requires older libraries and doesn’t work with the new ones.

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The fix is already out, no need to downgrade anything. Inkscape works normally for me.

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I just tried before I wrote about the topic. I’ll give it another try and then report back. Maybe it was just an unlucky coincidence.

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Perhaps a full update, restart, then try?

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I always run full updates. :wink:

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Very strange. It works indeed, although I’m now using the same versions prior to the update. Maybe there was another update/exchange of one of or both packages.

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Maybe a problem with the mirror.

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System needed to be restarted after last update perhaps?

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No. No restart took place.

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As a habit, I run a system update, and after it completes, restart the system.

Then I might run AUR updates, and use the system (unless one of these may benefit from another reboot after updating).

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