Fixing textext on Inkscape for Windows

It seems someone beat me to the punch by 14 hours!  See this link for the same package: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/timink/#MSWindows

The most recent versions of Inkscape for Windows (0.48 right now) ship with python 2.6.  However, the textext extension was written for an older version of Inkscape (0.46, I believe) that shipped with python 2.5.  Hence, when textext installs itself, it downloads all the python packages it needs — for python 2.5.  These packages do not work with python 2.6.

Anyway, I’ve packaged up the relevant python packages.  Download the package here: https://dgleich.com/upload/site-packages.zip

To use these, unzip the files into C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\python\Lib\site-packages (or wherever you have installed Inkscape.)

Here is what I did to collect them:

1. Install a 32-bit version of Python 2.6 (I have a 64-bit version of windows)
2. Download pygtk, pyobject, and pycairo from http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html
3. Install all three into python.  (I had to manually run all as Administrator on Windows 7).  This will install them into C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages
4. Find this directory, and copy the following files into the Inkscape site-packages directory.  (These files are the contents of the zip file.)
   pycario-*.egg-info
   pygtk.pth
   pygtk.py
   pygtk.pyc
   pygtk.pyo
   cairo\
   gtk-2.0\