On 18/9/11 01:15, daniele rossi wrote:
- Did you use the global menubar at the top of the screen (File >
Inkscape Preferences) to open the dialog? 2) If so, does it also crash when using the keyboard shortcut 'Shift+Ctrl+P' or the button on the commands bar instead?
Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/721448/comments/8
I used the globlal menubar when as it crashed. Now crash is difficult to reproduce
Thanks for testing and confirming: it is related to one of the issues already reported for Inkscape built with GTK+/Quartz in Inkscape's bug tracker (bug #721448).
For now, I recommend you to use the precompiled application packages for the stable releases offered by the Inkscape project (X11-based), or the command-line version installed via MacPorts using the X11 variant of the dependencies (gtk2, cairo, pango).
Even if you somehow manage to get a binary from trunk (lp:inkscape) with GTK+/Quartz compiled (following the instructions in the blueprint [1]) - it will not change the current situation that the builds with this backend are still unstable (or "experimental", WIP) compared to x11-based builds (IMHO).
It is beyond my scope (and resources, atm) to provide you step-by-step instructions and basic support for either a) backporting the patches from the blueprint to the stable branch to be able to patch and rebuild the 'inkscape' port in MacPorts (using a local Portfile repository), or b) upgrading, patching, building and testing the 'inkscape-devel' port in MacPorts (using a local Portfile repository), or c) building the current development branch outside of MacPorts (as described in the wiki), including solving the build failure you initially reported here, d) ... or investigate yet another other build/packaging method (jhbuild & gtk-osx, anyone? ;) )
Maybe - once an alternative hosting solution has been found for the win32 & osx nightlies - the question whether (and how) to offer precompiled development snapshots with the quartz backend will get discussed, too.
~suv
[1] see the footnote [1] in my initial reply http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/37284