Re: xfig_import problem

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Sebastien Schneider wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new dia user, I try it on windows platform, and it seems to work very
> fine, and I discover that it can import/export xfig files !  So I want to
> use it to replace my old xfig and to reuse my xfig figures and build
> more, but I got a problem, with 0.90 version, while importing xfig file
> that has text in it.  In fact, an assertion fail in file xfig-import at
> line 901 (I report the bug on the bugtracker, but don't know if the
> report was ok). The bug seems easy to patch, maybe just by removing the
> assertion !  I would be glad to try to patch it myself, but I can't build
> dia on windows platform :-(

Thanks for the report!  It does indeed seem to work with taking out the
assertion.  The newest CVS has xfig text import working.

-Lars

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