Inkscape

Visio Stencils Not Showing up in Stencil List (libxml2 >= 2.9.0)

Bug #1555421 reported by Irfan Ahmad
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Bug Description

According to [1], Visio Stencils are supported by Inkscape. "Visio stencil files (.vss) can also be used as a source of symbols by dropping the files into the share/symbols directory (if libvisio has been linked in)."

I'm running Inkscape 0.91.

I've tried several visio stencils [2][3] from various websites and none of them show up in the "Symbols (Shift+Ctrl+Y)" pane on Mac OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan).

The process I follow is this:
 * Open up the Inkspace package via "Show Package Contents" in Finder.
 * Find Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/symbols
 * Notice SVG files there like: AigaSymbols.svg and BalloonSymbols.svg
 * Drop in Nimble-Storage.vss in same folder
 * Quit Inkscape and XQuartz
 * Restart computer
 * Start Inkscape
 * Look in "Symbols (Shift+Ctrl+Y)" pane and find nothing other than default shipping packages
 * Debugging:
   - move AigaSymbols.svg to different folder
   - restart Inkscape
   - notice that set of Symbols no longer showing up in the "Symbols (Shift+Ctrl+Y)" pane
   - stop Inkscape
   - move that file back, restart inkscape and notice list back to normal

Your help in getting these stencils to load would be highly appreciated!

Irfan

[1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog
[2] http://www.visiocafe.com/nimble.htm
[3] https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzgqsghwkebbvfx/VMware%20EUC%20Visio%20Stencils%202015.zip?dl=1 via http://www.rayheffer.com/vmware-euc-datacenter-visio-stencils-2015/

ps: thanks for supporting this awesome tool.

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to file a report!

Not reproduced on Windows 7, Inkscape 0.91 (32-bit) and trunk rev. 14755.
The VSS file shows correctly in the Symbols dialog (after a rather long load time). Tested with the VSS file placed in the global share/symbols folder and in the user profile folder.

tags: added: symbols
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Likely depends on libxml2 version used by Inkscape - console messages from Inkscape 0.91 (local build, using libxml2 2.9.3) on OS X 10.7.5:

Entity: line 11666: parser error : AttValue length too long
9324) scale(1, 1) rotate(30.0000) translate(-22.3381, -50.9324) " xlink:href=
                                                                               ^
Entity: line 11666: parser error : attributes construct error
9324) scale(1, 1) rotate(30.0000) translate(-22.3381, -50.9324) " xlink:href=
                                                                               ^
Entity: line 11666: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag image line 11666
9324) scale(1, 1) rotate(30.0000) translate(-22.3381, -50.9324) " xlink:href=
                                                                               ^
Entity: line 11668: parser error : xmlSAX2Characters: huge text node
<svg:tspan font-family="Arial" font-size="4.5000" fill="#000000" fill-opacity="1
^
Entity: line 11668: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
<svg:tspan font-family="Arial" font-size="4.5000" fill="#000000" fill-opacity="1
^
/Users/su_v/.config/inkscape/symbols/Nimble-Storage.vss:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
??ࡱ?
^

@JazzyNico - any chance you could test a build with a more recent libxml2 version? AFAICT 32bit devlibs still includes libxml2 2.7.8.

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

~suv, thanks for the tip about libxml.

Reproduced on Xubuntu 16.04, Inkscape trunk rev. 14957, libxml 2.9.3.

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → Medium
summary: - Visio Stencils Not Showing up in Stencil List
+ Visio Stencils Not Showing up in Stencil List (libxml2 >= 2.9.0)
tags: added: regression
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