I also installed Blender on my mac recently... I am still trying to remember everything I did since the last time it worked.  I'm going to convert my fonts when I get home tonight, but in the meanwhile I would be more than happy to do anything I can to help figure out why the fonts worked in the past and not any more.  I have more files with that font, which I have not touched for at least a month.  Also would it be helpful if I did a clear reinstall of Inkscape to last year's build? Is there anything else on my system besides the Inkscape.app which needs to be removed for a clean uninstall?  The reason I ask is because every time I dragged and dropped Inkscape.app into the trashbin and then installed another Inkscape dmg, it seemed to remember my previous settings, such as "Open recent" would show all the recent docs I worked on.

On Feb 5, 2008 2:44 PM, Gail Carmichael <gail.banaszkiewicz@...155...> wrote:
jiho wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you
>> mentioned.  Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about it
>> etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the semester
>> and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to it.  I am
>> cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the knowledge to have a
>> look.  Still, we should try to determine for sure if it could be an
>> issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix that if it is.
>
> Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help
> of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the bug.

Ok, here's my theory: Part of the design of my work was to not show any
fonts in the UI that pango could not recognize, so if that's the case,
that's why it's not showing up at all now.  This is because everything
goes through pango at some point so you ended up being able to select
fonts that weren't usable.  What's really interesting is that Nick was
previously able to use these fonts even if they don't work with pango
(assuming that is truly the case).  Maybe there was a roundabout path
available before that has been cut off now.  Not sure if restoring that
path is really desirable, as we seem to have decided to restrict
ourselves to supporting what CSS and pango support (at least for now).
Anyone have any opinions on this?

Gail