- basic checks: (sorry if I am asking again, but it's unclear from
your answer what exactly you did remove and what stayed)
- the folder '~/.fontconfig/' itself still exists? (Inkscape.app
doesn't create it itself, it has to exist before you launch Inkscape)
- you only removed the one line from 'fonts.conf' as described: <cachedir>/opt/local/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
but left the second one intact <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir> (the second one needs to stay in 'fonts.conf' of Inkscape 0.46)
o.k. - I made a mistake here.
- any new fonts installed (on the OS X side, not X11) since the last
successful launch of Inkscape 0.46?
Nope.
- "the precompiled inkscape 0.46 on a macports-X11-environment"
a) Could you please confirm that your attached crash report happened with Inkscape 0.46-3 Tiger when using the original X11/XFree86 1.1.3 supplied by Apple? I am reading the crash report that it happened using the old X11 version installed (in '/usr/X11R6/').
Right - we are coming to the point…
Sorry, I sent my initial message to the apple X11 list - and said there, that I tried the most recent X11org, compiled via macports. So what I tried is NOT to use the X11.app delivered by apple.
b) precompiled Inkscape 0.46-3 on OS X Tiger with an updated X11/ Xquartz installation via MacPorts - I haven't heard from other users trying this setup on Tiger. And it is beyond what I could support due to lack of access to and experience with Tiger installations. Some comments nevertheless:
- Which version of X11/Xquartz gets installed on Tiger via MacPorts?
2.0
Does it already include and use the new launching mechanism of 'launchd' to automatically start X11 when demanded by another app?
I have no idea…
- If Xquartz on Tiger uses 'launchd' like on Leopard, you will have to
work on the launcher script bundled with Inkscape 0.46-3 Tiger, because AFAIU the bundled script ('Contents(Resources/script') will still try to launch the old X11 binary, relying on the old $DISPLAY scheme.
Wow - this looks quite complicated. Well, as the original X11 package by apple works fairly well, I'd rather like to focus on getting forward with inkscape aqua. Hopefully this will not change when 0.47 X11 for Mac is out…
Thanks a lot
Wolf