How to disable the Cairo plug-in? (Was: Fatal print bug in Dia 0.97 for windows that causes data loss)

[Christian Ridderström <christian ridderstrom gmail com>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Hans Breuer wrote:

> >  Here are the two files. You should be able to print bugg07_works.dia,
> >  whereas bugg07.dia should cause Da to freeze/hang/stop responding.

> It definitely should not, but indeed it does ;( From my current analysis 
> this is a bug in cairo: 
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-June/017506.html

> Yeah, it can be reproduced with every renderer using cairo, also the 
> antialiased display renderer. Thus my mentioning of *completely* disabling 
> the cairo plug-in as a temporary measure.

Hi Hans,

Thanks for looking into this. I'll be happy to try to disable the Cairo 
plug-in in ordet to be able to print. Unfortunately I don't know how, 
could someone give me a hint?

> >  Since this bug causes a data loss in terms of losing what you haven't
> >  saved, I wonder if there's an 'auto-save' that could be enabled.
> It is enabled by default, look for a file <original file path>.autosave

Should Dia notice this file automatically and ask me if I want to recover 
that instead?  (I don't think this happened for me while troubleshooting 
this bug).

/Christian

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