Hello ~suv,
you made my day - early in the morning! - Your hint did it!
A little time I was afraid of now being tied to my home-brew forever…
Should this line be permanently be removed in any inkscape release?
Thanks a lot!
Wolf
this is most likely bug #400165 "Binary Inkscape dist crashes when MacPorts is installed": <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/ 400165>
and here is a bug where the same happened on Tiger: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/183322 comments 7-14
The fix is to change the 'Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/fonts.conf' inside the Inkscape 0.46 package as described by Michael Wybrow in bug #400165 comment #4:
The problem is Inkscape trying to read incompatible fontcaches from Macports. The fix is to modify Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/fonts/conf to remove the following line: <cachedir>/opt/local/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>