I don't know if it helps but because the menus are rendered by the OS I can get to the font dialog, and the font preview in that dialog renders just fine. Nothing in the actual interface does though.
-- Matthew Peterson Programmer Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:38 AM, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
On 2008-June-27 , at 20:45 , Matt Peterson wrote:
Installed versions of pango and cairo are (copied straight from macports):
pango @1.16.5_0 pango @1.20.2_0+no_x11 pango @1.20.3_0+no_x11 (active) cairo @1.6.4_0+no_x11 cairo @1.6.4_1+macosx+no_x11 (active) As you can see, both of the active versions for cairo and pango have X11 disabled. I followed the instructions from http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX under the "Compiling Inkscape with native GTK using MacPorts [experimental]" heading to the best of my ability.
then I am not sure what to tell you. I haven't been trying this for a while. I just remember hitting that problem before and finally solving it.... but I don't remember precisely how unfortunately :( If you look into pango options (in pango's code or in macports : port edit pango) there is (was at least) a switch to specify rendering via cairo instead fo freetype. The result is that fonts are smoother than in the X11 version but that works. I won't be able to check this more before 2 or 3 weeks. Keep me in copy of your messages until then please. It is great that you work on this.
JiHO