On 2007-June-27 , at 02:30 , Benjamin Huot wrote:

I used another piece of software for a project instead of Inkscape because of the long wait before I could see the font list after starting to select from the font drop down menu. Is there any way for me to improve the performance via some setting?

I am using Inkscape .45.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC 1.33 GHZ with 1 GB RAM. No other problems on the system.

Hi,

1/ there's a bug with the font drop down list currently, which make it appear inconsistently. the bug report is there: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1644192&group_id=93438&atid=604306 could you check if the behavior is the same for you and add your impressions in the comments of the bug report please? 2/ when the font list does appear, it has preview of all the fonts in it so it probably take a bit of time to render this preview if you have many fonts. However, your hardware should be able to handle it quite correctly.

The solution I would advise currently if to use the text and font dialog (the T icon on the main toolbar or SHIFT+CTRL+T) which, in addition, is quite similar to the Mac OS X font palette. There is someone working on Text handling and fonts currently, for the Sumer of Code so there's hope those problems will be sorted out after the summer!

Cheers,

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