Message: 4
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:27:45 -0400
From: JiHO <jo.lists@...400...>
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X
- Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>, inkscape-devel List Devel
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On 2009-April-02 , at 13:10 , bulia byak wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Boutros Saba
<boutros.saba@...400...> wrote:
I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one was
it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one
seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that
changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape.
I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't
work too.
Just a guess, this may be related to the Pango library version you
have installed. Try to upgrade or downgrade it.
Pango is bundled with Inkscape on OS X so upgrading or downgrading
Inkscape should also upgrade or downgrade pango.
In X11 (XQuartz) however, there has ben some changes in the font
caching mechanism. I don't know if it could affect this behaviour
precisely.
Anyhow, before testing a new version of Inkscape and/or X11, you may
want to clear the font cache so that Inkscape rebuilds it on frist
launch (NB: this will make Inkscape's launch time quite long . just
wait).
To do so, remove the directory ~/.fontconfig. One way is to do it in
the Terminal:
rm -Rf ~/.fontconfig
be careful with this command, rm -Rf can be dangerous. Basically it
erases recursively everything you give to it. So if you type rm -Rf
~ /.fontconfig (with an accidental space between the words) it will read
rm -Rf ~
and that means: erase all of your home directory, where all you files
are. You don't want that ;)
JiHO
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