Thanks Bulia & JiHo,

Now I'm trying to roll back to previous versions of Inkscape on Tiger (10.4) - and I don't find the versions... any ideas where I can find them. I deleted all the previous versions I had.

Thanks & regards, Boutros

On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:52 AM, inkscape-devel- request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

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 inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <30C8951D-624A-49D1-BC33-0CFD5FA74121@...400...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes

On 2009-April-02 , at 13:10 , bulia byak wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Boutros Saba <boutros.saba@...400...> wrote:

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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

http://jo.irisson.free.fr/