(URGENT) Inkscape hangs CLI due to importing EPS forcing interactivity

[ronaldtse]

New issue: Inkscape is forcing use of interactivity for importing EPS, and that hangs command line.

https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/additional-question-in-inkscape-12-hangs-the-command-line-execution/

Not fixed as of two months ago: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/3524

A user will have to click "ok" for this to work, or else we have to modify the settings of inkspace in the Metanorma deployment, per first link:

Hello @AndrejMrvar, I had the same problem and was solved editing the file /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/eps_input.inx and replace:

<param name="autorotate" type="optiongroup" appearance="combo" gui-text="Determine page orientation from text direction"
  gui-description="The PS/EPS importer can try to determine the page orientation such that the majority of the text runs left-to-right.">
  <option value="None">Disabled</option>
  <option value="PageByPage">Page by page</option>
  <option value="All">All</option>
 </param>

with

<param name="autorotate" type="string" gui-hidden="true">None</param>

We need to do the following:

• When we install Inkscape for our deliverables we need to ensure interactivity for Inkscape is turned off (i.e. inkscape/extensions/eps_input.inx)
• When we execute EPS conversion, we need to ensure Inkscape runs without interactivity
• In our GHA jobs, we need to ensure that Inkscape has interactivity turned off. - metanorma/metanorma-cli#309 modify eps_input.inx autorotate param ci#116

[CAMOBAP]

Per the update on https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/additional-question-in-inkscape-12-hangs-the-command-line-execution/, the issue is fixed in Inkscape 1.3.

need to verify

[CAMOBAP]

The issue doesn't reproduces anymore https://github.com/metanorma/bs-202000/issues/20