Putting that line into Inkscape didn&#39;t seem to help, although inkscape is getting the change. I think it might be a problem with pango. The errors I am getting are:<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_show_all: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)&#39; failed<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_box_pack_start: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)&#39; failed<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_show_all: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)&#39; failed<br><br>(inkscape:19764): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object-&gt;ref_count &gt; 0&#39; failed<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object-&gt;ref_count &gt; 0&#39; failed<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333<br><br>** (inkscape:19764): CRITICAL **: gdouble sp_document_height(SPDocument*): assertion `document-&gt;root != NULL&#39; failed<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 28333<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 28333<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine=&#39;BasicEngineFc&#39;, font=&#39;Lucida Grande 12&#39;, text=&#39; &#39;<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine=&#39;BasicEngineFc&#39;, font=&#39;Lucida Grande 6.34765625&#39;, text=&#39;5&#39;<br><br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine=&#39;BasicEngineFc&#39;, font=&#39;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 12.5&#39;, text=&#39;?&#39;<br>
<br>(inkscape:19764): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine=&#39;BasicEngineFc&#39;, font=&#39;Lucida Grande 15&#39;, text=&#39;No objects selected. Click, Shift+click, or drag around objects to select.&#39;<br>
<br>Seems to me that pango isn&#39;t reading the font files right.<br clear="all"><br>--<br>Matthew Peterson<br>Programmer<br>Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bob Jamison &lt;<a href="mailto:rwjj@...127...">rwjj@...127...</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Matt Peterson wrote:<br>
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Inkscape wants to use Bitstream Vera Sans as the default font, but I don&#39;t have that installed on my system so every character becomes ugly rectangles. I cannot figure out how to change the font to something else.<br>

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You can probably fix this by editing gtkrc. &nbsp;There should be a global $GTK_INSTALL_DIR/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc,<br>
and also a user&#39;s &nbsp;~/.gtkrc-2.0.<br>
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I found some info on the web for a project with similar issues here:<br>
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<a href="http://xanana.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Installing_Coot_on_OS_X" target="_blank">http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Installing_Coot_on_OS_X</a><br>
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They have an entry:<br>
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gtk-font-name = &quot;LucidaGrande 15&quot;<br>
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Hope this helps.<br><font color="#888888">
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bob<br>
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