I found that compiling Inkscape from source (rather time-consuming, even on an i3 processor) gets the pen pressure working again for a Wacom Intuos4 "small" tablet.
The steps to build from source are described on the Inkscape wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape#Developer_Compilation but since they're a little "thin" for Ubuntu, I include the steps I took below, on Ubuntu Natty 11.04, in case it helps anyone. I noticed that the problem is still not fixed in the now-released Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (as mentioned by Richard), and even worse, the gimp is having problems (mysterious horizontal lines appearing for no reason), which is sad. So I opted to remain on Natty 11.04 and just build Inkscape from source. To perform a debug build of Inkscape (on Ubuntu Natty 11.04), to get pen pressure working properly, I proceeded as follows: mkdir $HOME/inkscape_my_build cd $HOME/inkscape_my_build mkdir build-gcc build-g++ # Install as many of the build dependencies as possible... sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape # Install some more build dependencies, I might have missed some... sudo apt-get install rcs libtool libgc-dev intltool libglib2.0-dev sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms1-dev liblcms1 sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtk-2.0 gawk g++ ccache # Get all of the source code, from the bzr code repository. sudo apt-get install bzr bzr branch lp:inkscape cd inkscape libtoolize --copy --force ./autogen.sh cd ../build-gcc CFLAGS='-g -O0 -Wall' CC='ccache gcc' ../inkscape/configure cd ../build-g++ CXXFLAGS='-g -O0 -Wall' CXX='ccache g++' ../inkscape/configure cd ../build-gcc && make -j 3 cd ../build-g++ && make -j 3 If everything worked properly, and you didn't get any error messages (google for them if you did, or look in the log files mentioned by the build output, to try to figure out the missing package), four new executables appear: $HOME/inkscape_my_build/build-g++/src/inkscape $HOME/inkscape_my_build/build-g++/src/inkview $HOME/inkscape_my_build/build-gcc/src/inkscape $HOME/inkscape_my_build/build-gcc/src/inkview You can try out Inkscape at this point to see if the pen pressure is working for you, just by running the following command (the icons will be all replaced by "missing" symbols, since the program isn't fully "installed" yet). $HOME/inkscape_my_build/build-gcc/src/inkscape If you're feeling brave, you can install the program (so that it appears with all the pretty icons and things we're used to seeing with the packaged Inkscape), as follows: cd $HOME/inkscape_my_build/build-gcc sudo make install Then to run it, you can use: /usr/local/bin/inkscape (at this point, "Help"->"About Inkscape" shows "Inkscape 0.48+devel r" in the top-right corner of the window). Obviously, it'd just be a stopgap measure, since I guess an arbitrary development build of Inkscape would hardly be the most stable thing to use, but we could perhaps figure out how to download the sources of the stable release and build those, to give it a try. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790130 Title: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/790130/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
