A Quick Note on Installing Old Ports¶
So, I recently discovered that something is wrong with Inkscape
0.91 available from MacPorts. When I attempt to convert a SVG to
PDF+LaTeX, it doesn’t work. At first blush, it appears like a macro
is not properly closed with a } character; however, I have not
had a chance to create a minimum working example to reproduce this
behavior. The problem is I _need_ this to work for my dissertation.
Trying the development port didn’t help because the lualatex was
claiming that a page was missing.
After a Google search, I found these instructions which failed because
port was claiming that it could not find the patches. To work around
this, I went to the repository and went back to the revision with the
patches. After downloading them and placing them in the files
directory next to the Portfile, I was able to get a copy of Inkscape
that worked for what I need. The trick was to manually download the
files port wanted.
Now to see if I can hunt down what the problem is and get it fixed…