On 14/7/09 17:11, Giovanni wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, ~suv<suv-sf@...58...> wrote:
did you have a look at your installed fonts? (font management with/in 'Font Book' has no influence on which fonts inkscape / X11 sees -> Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/font.conf defines the included font directories for inkscape)
The installed fonts are the default one, plus other three or four, which doesn't seem to be corrupted. Anyway it is more than 6 months that I don't install any font, therefore I may guess that's not the problem. Anyway, now that you speak of this problem, when everything was working, I wasn't able to select Helvetica as a font. I could select Helvetica CY, but not Helvetica: it was selecting Sans instead (I clicked on Helvetica, and Inkscape selected Sans). Could that be related?
same here (default install): Helvetica doesn't work, Helvetica CY does (that's related to the pango library AFAIK)
<off-topic> Locally I changed my fonts.conf and took out the (/System)/Library/fonts, then I copied the system fonts I wanted available in Inkscape into a separate directory and used 'fondu' to convert the dfont and other formats into .ttf font files which I then moved to ~/.fonts. Helvetica now works but only in bold and italic. Font support in Inkscape is not yet complete and has some issues. But it improves continuously ;-) </off-topic>
Back to the hanging inkscape: nothing else changed on your system between the last time 0.47pre worked and now?
Just did a test here: quit X11 and move ~/.fontconfig, restart the (original) Inkscape.app (Inkscape 0.47pre1) and get a hang as well (no crash, inkscape just doesn't launch, nor does X11).
Inkscape does not create a missing ~/.fontconfig directory itself.
mkdir ~/.fontconfig, then restart Inkscape.app - takes some time to build the fontcache, but launches finally and runs ok.
~suv